-IndiaSpend.com Bengaluru: Global economic output is expected to contract by 4.9% in 2020 owing to the COVID-19 Lockdown. India announced a Lockdown on March 24, 2020, which was extended over two months, and continues in pockets of states depending on the spread of the disease, which has now infected more than half a million people in the country. The Lockdown impacted millions of inter-state migrant workers who form the bulwark of India’s...
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In Jharkhand, social audit finds nearly half the people didn’t get full Lockdown ration -Abhishek Angad
-The Indian Express These are some of the findings mentioned in a report prepared by Jharkhand’s Social Audit Unit, under the Rural Development Department, created to “promote transparency and accountability in implementation of the programs”. Ranchi: FORTY-EIGHT per cent people did not receive full two months’ ration, as promised by the Jharkhand government during the Lockdown period. Out of 1,255 families inspected, which had pregnant/lactating women or children below five years of...
More »COVID Lockdown: How India's Food Supply Chain First Tightened and then Recovered -Matt Lowe and Ben Roth
-TheWire.in Food supply shortages, if any, are driven by state level policy making, rather than consumers’ and suppliers’ fears of contracting COVID-19. In mid-April, the supply of fruits and vegetables at Azadpur mandi, Asia’s largest fruit and vegetable market, had fallen about 50% since the start of India’s nationwide Lockdown. Two months later, updated nationwide data shows that India’s food supply chain appears to have recovered, operating at levels comparable to the same...
More »Modi government should embrace NREGA without trying to defend the indefensible -Debmalya Nandy & Rajendran Narayanan
-Scroll.in The government subjected the rural job scheme to systemic shocks but must now scale it up to 200 days of work to combat Lockdown losses. The impact of the Modi government’s unilateral decision to impose a two-month-long nationwide Lockdown has amplified the crisis faced by India’s 50-crore strong unorganised workforce. A potent option at present to cushion some of the blow is the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act. The law, which was...
More »Govt’s rural focus could hit urban economy -Aunindyo Chakravarty
-The Tribune This is a crucial moment for Modinomics. Till now, government schemes have been used to help the poorest of the poor survive, even when they do not have any regular source of income. The middle class has continued to back the PM, hoping his policies will yield dividends. The industrial recession has shaken that belief. It could well be the beginning of their disenchantment with the PM. IN 2014, journalist...
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